OTP 23

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Post by nifoc » Wed, May 13, 2020, 1:14 PM UTC

OTP 23
erlang.org

Re: OTP 23

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Post by conradfr » Wed, May 13, 2020, 2:07 PM UTC

https://twitter.com/elixirlang/status/1260556559165292544

> Elixir v1.10.3 is fully compatible with Erlang/OTP 23.0 - so up to date Elixir users are ready to give it a try!

Re: OTP 23

#3

Post by sitkack » Wed, May 13, 2020, 2:17 PM UTC

> Support for SSL 3.0 is completely removed.

Yay! We need to actively and in a strong forceful manner remove broken security products.

Re: OTP 23

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Post by ponyous » Wed, May 13, 2020, 2:21 PM UTC

Couple of times when somebody posted an OTP erlang update I had no clue what I was reading. Then I came back to HN and somebody broke down why some things are really useful/changed and it was mind blowing.

Can some erlanger explain why you are excited about certain things from the update?

Re: OTP 23

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Post by moviedo » Wed, May 13, 2020, 2:30 PM UTC

I'm currently learning erlang/elixir and I'm really enjoying the language constructs.

I had originally taken a Programming Language Paradigms class in college with racket, and I really didn't appreciate functional ideas(i.e. syntax is my excuse). I'm now a really big fan of functional language idioms.

Anyone interested should try the futurelearn class, https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/functional-programming-e....

Re: OTP 23

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Post by lelf » Wed, May 13, 2020, 2:31 PM UTC

Re: OTP 23

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Post by localcdn » Wed, May 13, 2020, 2:56 PM UTC

Nice to see default TLS 1.3 support. Though it looks like the use_srtp extension for DTLS is still being worked on.

Re: OTP 23

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Post by mikece » Wed, May 13, 2020, 3:22 PM UTC

Does cloud-based serverless computing compete with or complement Erland/Elixir? As a dotNetCore developer who writes a lot of Lambda and Azure function code I am trying to understand how OTP relates to these paradigms or if they are apples and oranges.

Re: OTP 23

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Post by Grimm1 » Wed, May 13, 2020, 3:24 PM UTC

moviedo wrote: post #5

I'm currently learning erlang/elixir and I'm really enjoying the language constructs. I had originally taken a Programming Language Paradigms class in college with racket, and I really didn't appreciate functional ideas(i.e. syntax is my excuse). I'm now a really big fan of functional language idioms. Anyone interested should try the futurelearn class, https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/functional-programming-e... .

I was in the same boat until discovering elixir/erlang it has by far been the most approachable functional language for me and it has been a gateway drug of sorts into experimenting with ocaml and various lisps.

I personally think elixir is really special and an amazing fit for any project that needs high IO concurrency.

Re: OTP 23

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Post by brudgers » Wed, May 13, 2020, 3:30 PM UTC

ponyous wrote: post #4

Couple of times when somebody posted an OTP erlang update I had no clue what I was reading. Then I came back to HN and somebody broke down why some things are really useful/changed and it was mind blowing. Can some erlanger explain why you are excited about certain things from the update?

What I appreciate about this update is how little code it breaks and how little future code is likely to be backwards incompatible. Or to put it another way, what I appreciate is the sameness of the programming environment. To a first approximation nothing needs to be rewritten and newly written code will look just like existing code. What I appreciate is OTP is better and there's nothing programmers have to do (to a first approximation) to get that betterness. Instead, rolling out the betterness is a system administration task.

Basically, what is exciting is how well engineered it is.